1. Text analysis

 Accoring to text A: The Story of My Life (Chapter 4) , try to find out the typical features of narrative eassay.

Group work: Reread and analyze the text, post up their answers and give a reasonable explanation( which paragraph / sentence/word). 

2. 范文赏析

范文2：

My English Teacher

My English teacher is a woman of medium-height. She is in her thirties. She always has a smile on her face and a kind word for her students. As she is also a little plump， she gives people the impression that she is a patient， responsible and easy-going teacher. This picture of my teacher is true.

She devotes herself to the cause of education. She prepares and organizes her lessons so well that we are fully attentive in her class. After class she often gives lesson to the students who have been absent from school because of illness. With her help， we have become more and more interested in our English study. Whenever we have problems we will turn to her for help. As a matter of fact，she is more an intimate friend to us than a respected teacher. We have learnt a great for her devotion to her work， her conscientiousness in teaching， and her readiness to help others.

这篇文章首先描写老师的外貌特征及这种外部特征给学生的印象。人物外部特征的描绘，对于人物性格和人物形象的完整体现，有着重要的烘托作用。而作为一个老师，最主要的事情应该是对待工作的态度，因此文章第二段重点描述了老师对待工作的态度，体现老师对工作的认真负责及对学生的关怀和帮助，使读者对这位老师有了更深刻的认识，全文详略得当，重点突出。

范文3：

My Mother

I love my mother very much. Like many other Chinese women， my mother is diligent. She works in a primary school. In order to teach well， she prepares her lectures very carefully and often works so late at night.

My mother is very kind and sincere. She gets along with her neighbors and colleagues. When they have difficulties， she is always ready to lend them a helpful hand. Therefore she is loved and respected in our neighborhood.

Mother often tells me to be honest and upright. She expects me to be useful to the people in the future. Up to now， I still remember her saying: Do as much as you can and you will succeed.

这篇文章描写了自己的母亲。作者写得很生动。让我们看到了一个善良而朴实的母亲。她的美好形象深深地刻在了我们心中，作者寥寥数语就将母亲的形象描写出来。文章运用了很多的形容词。善于运用词汇并且抓住特征，就能让我们笔下的人物栩栩如生。

                                      Chou En-lai

[1] Chou En-laiarrived [at the guest house for state visitors] at 4:30. His gaunt, expressive face was dominated bypiercing eyes, conveying a mixture of intensity and repose, of wariness andcalm self-confidence.He wore an immaculately tailored gray Mao tunic, at once simple and elegant. He moved gracefully and with dignity, filling aroom not by his physical dominance (as did Mao or de Gaulle) but by his air ofcontrolled tension, steely discipline, and self-control, as if he were a coiledspring. He conveyed an easy casualness, which, however, did not deceive thecareful observer. The quick smile, the comprehending expression that made clear he understood English even withouttranslation, the palpable alertness, were clearly the features of a man who hadhad burned into him by a searing half-century thevital importance of self-possession. I greeted him at the door of the guesthouse and ostentatiously stuck out my hand. Chou gave me a quick smile and took it. It was the firststep in putting the legacy of thepast behind us.

 [2] Unlike Mao, Chou hadlived abroad; born of a middle-class family in 1898, he had been a brilliant studentand had studied and worked in France and Germany in the 1920s. When I met him.he had been a leaderof the Chinese Communist movement for nearly fifty years. He had been on theLong March. He had beenthe only Premier the People's Republic had had—nearly twenty-two years—and for nine of thoseyears he had also been Foreign Minister. Chou had negotiated with GeneralMarshall in the 1940s. He wasa figure out of history. He was equally at home in philosophy, reminiscence,historical analysis, tacticalprobes, humorous repartee. His command of facts, in particular his knowledge of American eventsand, for that matter, of my own background, was stunning. There was littlewasted motion either inhis words or in his movements. Both reflected the inner tensions of a manconcerned, as he stressed,with the endless daily problems of a people of 800 million and the effort topreserve ideological faithfor the next generation...

[3] Chou couldalso display an extraordinary personal graciousness. When junior members of our party tookill, he would visit them. Despite the gap in our protocol rank he insisted thatour meetings alternate betweenmy residence and the Great Hall of the People so that he would call on me as often as I called onhim. After we had settled on Paris as our future point of contact, Chounevertheless proposed that wecontinue to use the Pakistani channel occasionally because we have a saying in China that oneshouldn't break the bridge after crossing it.

[4] ...The Chineseseemed to regard him with special reverence, to see in him of all their leaders a special quality.On a visit in late 1975 1 asked a young interpreter about Chou's health; tearsbrimmed in her eyes as shetold me he was gravely ill. It was no accident that he was so deeply mourned inChina after his death,or that the extraordinary expressions of yearning for greater freedom thatappeared in China in the late1970s invoked and praised his name.

15] Chou En-lai,in short, was one of the two or three most impressive men I have ever met Urbane, infinitelypatient, extraordinarily intelligent, subtle, he moved through our discussionswith an easy grace thatpenetrated to the essence of our new relationship as if there were no altenative.

—Henry Kissinger. White House Year

基辛格如何描述周恩来的外貌和性格？

作者使用了哪些细节表现周恩来的突出品质和主要特征？